Biography

Gabriele Bammer is developing the new discipline of Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) to improve research strengths for tackling complex real-world problems through synthesis of disciplinary and stakeholder knowledge, understanding and managing diverse unknowns and providing integrated research support for policy and practice change (see http://i2s.anu.edu.au). This is described in Disciplining Interdisciplinarity: Integration and Implementation Sciences for Researching Complex Real-World Problems (ANU E Press, 2013; http://press.anu.edu.au?p=222171). She runs the Integration and Implementation Inisghts (i2Inisghts) blog (https://i2insights.org/) and convenes the Global Network for Research Integration and Implementation: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Global-Network-Research-Integration-Implementation-4888295.

She is an ANU Public Policy Fellow, an inaugural Fulbright New Century Scholar alumna and has held visiting appointments at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (2001-14) and the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center at the University of Maryland (2015-2018), along with short-term appointments at ETH-Zurich (2007) and the Universitaet fuer Bodenkultur in Vienna (2012). From 2007-2013 she was the convenor of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security’s Integration and Implementation research program.

Between 2011-13 she was Director of the ANU's Research School of Population Health, Director of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health and co-Director and then Director of the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute.

Researcher's projects

My projects aim to:

refine the conceptualisation of Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S)

gather and organise concepts and methods for application by i2S specialists

bring together different disciplinary and practitioner perspectives on unknowns and on change

This is a community blog about concepts and methods for understanding and acting on complex real-world problems – problems such as global climate change, effective health care and inequalities. Anyone with relevant expertise and experience is invited to contribute. A new concept or method is described every week. As well as building a repository of tools and ideas, the blog aims to connect a community of researchers involved in improving approaches for tackling complex real world problems both internationally and across a wide range of problem domains.

tools (concepts and methods) for (i) synthesising knowledge across disciplines and stakeholders, (ii) understanding and managing diverse unknowns and (iii) providing research support for policy and practice change

approaches, which are different ways of tackling complex real world problems, including interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, systems thinking, action research and more

In March 2018 a 3.5 day workshop brought together 18 leaders of interdisciplinary organisations from around the world to share learnings from an organizational perspective about fostering interdisciplinary research. The aim was to improve understanding of how different institutional models successfully catalyze interdisciplinary scientific advances, innovative thinking and durable practices, as well as to form an influential leaders group to advise research funders and research and education policy makers. Information about various outcomes will be reported in the next few weeks. This is a collaborative project with the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC).

4. Frameworks for Transdisciplinary Research

This is a commissioned series for the journal GAIA, where leading transdisciplinary researchers briefly describe the frameworks they use for their research. Starting in mid-2017, one framework is described in each issue of the jounal. It follows on from the successful "Toolkits for Transdisciplinarity" series.